MLO 1 Language Proficiency Students are able to communicate effectively in Spanish in three modes: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational, and in a culturally appropriate manner in a variety of social and professional settings and circumstances at the Advanced Low level of language proficiency, according to ACTFL Guidelines
● 1.1 Speaking ability: The student is able to satisfy the requirements of everyday situations and routine school and work requirements. Can communicate facts and talk casually about topics of current public and personal interest, using general vocabulary. The student can be understood without difficulty by native speakers.
● 1.2 Listening ability: The student is able to understand main ideas and most details of connected discourse on a variety of topics beyond the immediacy of the situation. Comprehension may be uneven due to a variety of linguistic factors and topics.
● 1.3 Reading ability: The student is able to read prose selections of several paragraphs in length, particularly if printed clearly and if prose is in familiar sentence patterns. Reader understands the main ideas and facts but may miss some details. At this level the student can read such texts as descriptions, narratives, short stories, news items and routine personal and business correspondence.
● 1.4 Writing ability: The student is able to write routine social correspondence and join sentences in simple discourse of at least several paragraphs in length on familiar topics, and is able to express him/herself simply with some circumlocution. Good control of the most frequently used syntactic structures, but makes frequent errors in producing complex sentences. Writing is understandable to natives not used to the writing of non-natives.
SPAN 395IP Speaking and Writing Skills
SPAN 303 Adv Spanish Grammar
SPAN 427 Latin American Women Writers
Many of the Spanish courses that I have taken throughout my college career fulfill the requirement for MLO 1, however, SPAN speaking and writing and SPAN 303 advanced grammar helped me to fulfill this MLO the most. I took the speaking and writing class when I was studying abroad in Granada and we had class discussions every single class. We also had at least one presentation per class. I had to present about a controversial topic in the news without looking at a memo. This was incredibly difficult and I remember getting so nervous beforehand. I talked about how Seaworld was not going to breed more Orca wales in captivity because it is now seen as animal cruelty. Through this I was able to discuss a fairly complex topic in Spanish without having a heavily scripted memo to look at. Both of these things help meet to listening requirement. I was able to speak, listen, and comprehend complex ideas and controversial topics. There were students from various countries in my class, therefore it was also good practice listening to different accents all speaking the same language. For the reading ability my SPAN 427 course helped considerably. We would read novels every class and discuss the language of the novels. For the writing abilities SPAN 427 was also great because we would write essays on nearly all of the novels we had read. All in all these courses helped me in many ways. I understand the literary, historical, and linguistic elements of Spanish much more than before taking these classes. I hope to continue reading novels in Spanish to better my vocabulary and understanding of the culture and language.
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